WA Branch News: Archive by Category

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AIRC decisions
Aviation Industry
Awards
Building Better Communities
Campaigns
Collective Bargaining
Fire fighters
Gas Industry
Hazards
Improving Workplace Conditions
Mining Industry
Miscellaneous
Redundancies
Rural Workers
Shearers
Superannuation
Trade
Women in the Workplace
Work & Family
Workers Entitlements
Workplace Privacy
Workplace Safety

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AIRC decisions

• MEDIA ALERT
• Recent WINS for Shearers!

Aviation Industry

• ACTU Media Release Issued Monday 5 February 2007

Awards

• State Award for shearing members

Building Better Communities

• John Hughes for Canning

Campaigns

• AWU MEDIA RELEASE
• AWU Members March Against Howard Goverment's Proposed IR Reform
• AWU Your Rights at Work Campaign
• Ads put human face to work changes
• Aviation Industry Meeting
• Bullying in the Workplace
• FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CHANGES
• How John Howard’s Industrial Relations Laws....
• National Day of Protest - 15th November 2005

Collective Bargaining

• Australian Workplace Agreements Questioned
• Collective Bargaining Rights
• Pilbara Miners Resist AWAs
• Unions Win $19 A Week Pay Rise

Fire fighters

• Dwellingup Fires

Gas Industry

• Att: Oil & Gas Industry Workers
• Attention: Oil & Gas Industry Members - important facts re: Income Tax Advice

Hazards

• BHP DEATHS REQUIRE NEW SAFETY POWERS
• BHP- BILLITON BLAST INQUIRY UNDERWAY
• Safety concerns for shearing members

Improving Workplace Conditions

• ALP to toughen sham Contractor curbs; create new safety net
• Annual Report 2004
• CALM Fire Service Provision Negotiations
• Changes to the Western Australian Workers' Compensation System
• Former PM Bob Hawke Strongly Endorses Role of Unions
• IWAs under the previous Government: Do you know?
• Letter to Editor
• MORE EVIDENCE AWA'S ARE CUTTING PAY & CONDITIONS FOR AUSTRALIAN WORKING FAMILIES
• Things are shaping up for the industry in WA

Mining Industry

• ACTU REJECTS BIG MINERS' BACKING FOR LIBERAL'S AWA INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTS
• AWU IS BACK IN THE GOLDFIELDS
• AWU MOVES TO PROTECT HWE JOBS

Miscellaneous

• "Tell them they're dreaming!"
• "UNION CAMPAIGN AGAINST IR LAWS IS LEGITIMATE" SAYS ELECTORAL COMMISSION
• ACTU Media Release - Friday 23 February 2007
• ACTU Media Release Issued Wednesday, 28 February 2007
• AUSTRALIAN WORKERS UNION SHOW A DIFFERENT FACE
• AWU FINANCIAL STATEMENT 2005/2006
• BUSINESS OUTCRY OVER LABOR'S PLAN TO SCRAP AWAs IS POLITICAL RATHER THAN FACTUAL
• Benefits for AWU Members
• Federal Government's voting rule changes could hurt Young Workers
• GENERAL MEETING
• Harmony Week 15-21 March 2007
• Julia Gillard - Tuesday 17th April - Gosnells, Perth WA
• Letter to the Kalgoorlie Miner Newspaper's Editor
• MEDIA RELEASE - 5th February 2007
• Mandurah Crab Fest 2007 - AWU Picture
• New report shows Howard Govt AWAs are used to cut workers' pay & avoid unions
• Newspaper Article on AWU's involvement at the Mandurah Crab Fest
• One Year On
• Rudd: Labor will rip up AWAs.
• Scheduled Election 2006 - Alcoa Pinjarra Refinery Sub-Branch
• Services from WA Opticians Associates to AWU Members
• The AWU Pilbara Rank and File Update
• The AWU Pilbara Rank and File Update Vol. 2
• WorkCover WA Customer First Feedback

Redundancies

• Fed Govt's 'no AWA, no job' IR laws used to sack worker after 24 years service.
• IR laws used to deny sacked workers redundancy entitlements

Rural Workers

• APVMA BOARD DECISION
• AWU Fact Sheet
• FAIR PAY COMMISSION DECISION - RURAL WORKERS
• MEDIA STATEMENT: INSPECTION PROGRAM FOR BROADACRE FARMS UNDERWAY

Shearers

• Availability of the Q Fever Vaccine & Q-Fever Skin Test
• Landmark victory for shearing members
• New award rates for shearing members
• Worksafe to access compliance with Shearing Code of Practice

Superannuation

• STA & Members Equity

Trade

• Labour Movement Work Experience Programme

Women in the Workplace

• Pay Equity
• Women now earn $100 a week less than men
• Women workers and low paid worst affected by IR laws: New research shows

Work & Family

• AIRC UPHOLDS UNION RIGHTS
• Budget Fails Working Australians
• HOWARD GOVT ADDS $70,000 INTEREST TO TYPICAL HOME LOAN FOR WORKING FAMILIES
• HOWARD SHAFTS BATTLERS WITH SACKING LAW
• Joe Keenan Passes Away
• Low paid employees to be hit hardest by Howard’s IR laws
• New AWU Office and Organiser in Kalgoorlie
• New IR laws 'fairness test' is biased against employees
• New Service for AWU Members
• New report shows Federal Govt is failing working families says ACTU
• PUSH ON FOR PERMANENCY AFTER CASUAL JOBS CUT AT ALCOA MINE NURSERY
• Past President Passes Away
• Protect Young Workers: Combet
• The Union buries its dead
• UNIONS WIN 2 YEARS PARENTAL LEAVE AND RIGHT TO P/TIME WORK FOR WORKING PARENTS
• What makes an ideal workplace ~ National Secretary Bill Shorten

Workers Entitlements

• ACTU Media Release Issued Tuesday 13 February 2006
• AWU WA finalises and registers new common rule Shearing Award
• Howard Government workplace watchdog approves $3 an hour wage for young worker.
• In case you haven't heard...
• Penalty rates traded away for coffee and a cheap muffin
• Workers Win $19.00 per Week

Workplace Privacy

• The Howard Government law threatens right of employees to union representation

Workplace Safety

• BIG SHEEP FACE NEEDLE IN SHEARERS’ SAFETY PLAN
• Cyclone – Emergency Preparation, Planning and Preparedness.
• Giving a voice to Rig Workers - the Offshore Alliance
• Important message from AWU WA Secretary Tim Daly
• Information Session for potential WorkSafe Inspectors
• Internation Day of Mourning
• Machinery Company fined $75, 000 over death of Worker
• New WorkChoices advertising scandal shows Howard Govt can't hide truth about IR
• SAFETY BULLETIN ISSUED ON CYCLONE SAFETY
• WHAT TO DO IF A WORKER SUFFERS A WORKPLACE ACCIDENT/INJURY